Women started fandom. Women started fanfic. Women started star Trek cons. Women invented beer, and the novel, while we're at it. Stop trying to erase women from spaces, you stupid, lazy, misogynistic fucks.

If only everyone could have predicted this www.thegamer.com/ea-generativ...

California, don't forget to vote on Prop 50. Turnout is expected to be low, and we can't afford to unilaterally disarm while rightwingers pack congress.

They're definitely keeping those funds as a backup for themselves in case they need to pack and leave the country. This is a solidly "fuck the people, pad our pockets" administration that steals and will bail if we reach a crisis point

Resistance is possible, and it’s happening right now.

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

PSA: Early voting starts tomorrow 🗳️ DREAM teamed up with @ilanaglazer.com and Carla to help New Yorkers ensure we leave the politics of evil Andrew Cuomo and the past behind.

Once again to the randos that choose to follow my acct- If i scroll through your following/follows and see 99.9% white/pale faces & posts, you're getting blocked. It's 2025. If you haven't done the bare minimum introspection on yourself & your interactions, I'm curating you out.

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

STUFF! Oct 16-19 Northwest Film Forum, see you there? nwfilmforum.org/festivals/seattle-trans-underground-film-festival-2025

The second part of Louise Weard's epic comes to The Forum THIS SUNDAY with @seattletransfilmfest.org ! CASTRATION MOVIE ANTHOLOGY ii: THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS trades slice-of-life sensibilities for a world of chaos that can be described as "trans AFTER HOURS on speed."

By all means, go protest this weekend. But BE SAFE, listen to experienced organizers, DON'T RSVP, WEAR A MASK, and turn biometrics off on your phone if you must bring it. And if you're arrested protesting in IL, I will represent as many people as I can pro bono. Email me at [email protected].

Zohran Mamdani is doing what he's calling "a reverse town hall" with members of local unions that have endorsed his mayoral campaign (UFT, 32BJ, 1199, among them).

The best thriller of 2025 is Geeta Gandbhir's harrowing documentary THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR. For @reverseshot.bsky.social, I spoke with Gandbhir during #NYFF63 about subverting the inherent dehumanizing of police bodycam videos to empathetically record a community.

"In an environment where nothing is private, even the most basic aspects of personal care become luxuries. For incarcerated women, managing a menstrual cycle is not just a routine part of life — it is often a monumental struggle."

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.

The more we use this technology, the more we necessarily turn over not only our data and our privacy but the basic things we need to survive. Meanwhile, reality is totally reshaped by LLMs as increasingly authoritarian media is pumped out as training data. Nothing could be more useful to them.

Imagine for a moment a world so dependent on data centers that every aspect of municipal infrastructure must be reshaped. Not around human need, but maintaining GPU farms that use exponentially more power and water with each build. Models are only growing, and our resources are only diminishing.

It should strike people that the stock market isn’t crashing despite the shutdown. Like sub-prime mortgages, it has yet again totally detached itself from economic reality while they speculate on how many workers they can fire to replace with AI. It is helping a failing economic strategy save face.

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

It’s a material reality that right now the AI tech bubble is holding up the empire. It increasingly powers all commerce, and is central to the most invasive surveillance apparatus the world has ever seen. Predictive analytics trained on our data have allowed billionaires to track us like wildlife.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Premium: The AI Bubble's promises are impossible. NVIDIA's customers are running out of money, GPUs die in 3-5 years, most 1GW data centers will never get built, and OpenAI's Abilene data center doesn't won't have the power it needs before 2028 - if it ever does. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...

Peter Thiel is at the core of tech oligarch circle- with his creepy spytech company Palantir now a key government contractor -and his belief system is a bizarre synthesis of Atlas Shrugged, Nazi philosophy via Carl Schmidt, and endtimes belief in the AntiChrist www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This could be a tagline from this season of Gen V cuz even writers for entertainment are trying to make this so clear to casual audiences about eugenics and fascism. There is no "good" outcome with eugenics and fascism.

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Jared Leto may have a toxic reputation, he may have a wildly unappealing screen presence, but say what you will, he also can't open a movie either.

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is. There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story. My take: it's giving Enron open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

“The humans won hands down when it came to notes, which require actual analysis rather than just distillation. The AI programs were ‘an almost total fail across the board.’” Nice to know I wouldn’t have been so easily replaced at my old job by an A.I. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples? HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

It's been 85 years since The Great Dictator first dazzled audiences in 1940. It was a big risk for one of the world's most popular performers to take a stand against fascism on film. n.pr/4n4s82s

There is no coming back from this. There is no forgiveness. If this ends in our favor these assholes should never know a moment’s peace

Fun fact, Massachusetts passed a millionaire tax to pay for (IIRC) public works projects and parks, and the millionaire population of the state went up by like 38% Turns out when you have functionally infinite money,most people are actually willing to spend a bit extra to live somewhere *nice*.

CA governor Gavin Newsom vetoed both of the major AI bills on his desk that Silicon Valley meaningfully opposed—one making it illegal for bosses to use AI to fire workers with no oversight, one requiring chatbot sellers to ensure their products do not harm children before marketing to them.

What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity. And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

It is beyond disgusting that these ppl with this much power are allowed to get away w/this childish, edge lord behavior. Imagine the Biden administration saying this. Everyone would rightfully call for their resignation. Yet Republicans are allowed to do whatever the fuck they want

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I really really enjoy this dude 😂

yet another example of how actually saying what’s going on (a unilateral seizure of Congressional power) doesn’t sound “balanced” enough, so view-from-nowhere media can’t tell you what’s happening in plain language

the powers that be want you to know less about your computer. they are taking away your beautiful file pathing, keyboard inputs, considered mouse clicks, and expertise of your OS. everything will soon be done by mumbling into the open air and praying it works correctly. this is a nightmare.

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

"Transsexuality is bourgeois" reflects the common belief that medicine, technology, and any improvements to quality of life are owed to capitalism. The reality is that capitalism holds these improvements hostage for the sake of wealth.

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

GenAI is an exploitation machine. I'm always in awe of claims that it can be anything more because reality proves over and over again that its users can't imagine anything better than exploitation.

American politics becomes what it becomes because when people were saying “ Americans don’t protest like the French, Koreans, etc” Everyone leaves out the context of How they stopped covering Black protests and no longer mention them

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement. At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week